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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => TI Z80 => Topic started by: spud2451 on August 13, 2011, 04:13:25 pm

Title: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: spud2451 on August 13, 2011, 04:13:25 pm

hey people i'm making a shell in hybrid basic (basic and celtic III)

i want your thoughts on
what you'd like in it
feel free to post as many ideas as you want

(please make them reasonable for hybrid basic)

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: ben_g on August 13, 2011, 04:17:43 pm

what types of programs will your shell be able to execute?

And wouldn't basic be way to slow and limited for a shell?

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: ztrumpet on August 13, 2011, 04:23:02 pm

Quote from: ben_g on August 13, 2011, 04:17:43 pm

And wouldn't basic be way to slow and limited for a shell?

Nope.  Check out Oasis (it's now in my sig) or other examples that are out there.

I recommend that you make it easy to use.  No one likes something that is really slow or cryptic; make sure users can run programs easily.

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: spud2451 on August 13, 2011, 04:26:15 pm

basic and asm programs

but there are so many functions that i'm adding in to it
that it should make up for the little bit of slowness

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: spud2451 on August 14, 2011, 09:52:33 am

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to put in my shell

Ps my shell has been renamed fiddle

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 14, 2011, 10:33:37 am

Hi and welcome here (I think I didn't welcome you before).

For shell ideas I don't have any right now, but make sure we can do the essential like unlocking/archiving programs from it. Also try to make it not too large and not too slow. Note that this will be hard for a BASIC shell to compete against Doors CS7 or even MirageOS, though, especially that BASIC shells historically had a very bad reputation on ticalc.org, but it can be a good way to practice some TI-BASIC/Celtic programming.

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: spud2451 on August 14, 2011, 11:43:32 am

Personally this is for personal use
but i could pm you what i have so far

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 14, 2011, 12:06:06 pm

Aaah ok, and nah it should be fine. The thing is that having dropped out of the calculator programming scene for a while now, I tend to be less active here, so sometimes it can take a long while to reply. Screenshots would be cool, though.

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: LincolnB on August 14, 2011, 12:38:48 pm

You might want to check this out: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/362/36269.html

It pretty much walks you through the process of writing a shell program in Hybrid TI-Basic

Title: Re: i'ma make'n a shell
Post by: spud2451 on August 14, 2011, 01:34:22 pm

hey guys i finished the beta version of fiddle

some screenshots are at my new website http://spudpix.webs.com/ (http://spudpix.webs.com/)

i'm also attaching the file to this post

feel free to give feedback